Panel talk: The Machine’s Eye in Human Hands
Join five world-leading artists for a panel discussion on AI, truth, and the future of photography.
Photo above: Still from the video work Human Movie © Eryk Salvaggio
When the machine no longer simply records the world, but begins to imagine new versions of it — what happens to photography as a bearer of truth?
On the opening night of The Machine’s Eye in Human Hands, we invite you to an intimate and thought-provoking panel with five of the exhibiting artists. Together, we step into the space where human intention meets machine imagination and where the boundaries between them begin to blur.
Moving beyond the technology itself, the conversation explores something deeper: our timeless urge to witness, to remember, to enchant and, at times, to deceive.
Moderated by Paulina Modlitba, one of Sweden’s leading voices in technology and innovation, the panel reflects on how AI is reshaping our understanding of fiction, memory, and the very nature of the image.
Join us for an evening that invites you to look closer, think further and reconsider what an image can be, and what it means to be human in an increasingly automated world.
SOLIENNE © Kristi Coronado
Participating Artists
Jonas Bendiksen
The documentary photographer (Magnum Photos) who deceived the entire photography world with The Book of Veles. By masterfully blending photography with synthetic avatars and AI-generated text, he proved how easily a total construct can pass as documentary truth, sparking a global debate on photographic credibility.
Eryk Salvaggio
Researcher and artist who strips away the myth of machine intelligence to instead find the human element within "noise": glitches, errors, and algorithmic failures.
Susanne Fagerlund
Visual artist who utilizes archives and algorithms to create speculative ecosystems and new digital hybrid species.
Kristi Coronado & Seth Goldstein
The artist behind SOLIENNE, an AI agent created in collaboration with Seth Goldstein. Rather than being trained on the internet, the agent is built on Coronado’s own memories and personal archives. The project explores "legacy, not exploitation," investigating how creativity can emerge from a close relationship between human and machine.
Kevin Abosch
A pioneer in AI art who examines the ethical and material costs behind the images we create, ranging from energy consumption to questions of copyright.